Goodwood Festival: nearly here!

It's FOS time again - so what's on at Goodwood in 2012?

Well it's that time of year again, folks - the Goodwood Festival of Speed is here this weekend. So as the 150,000 or so of us who plan to make the pilgrimage down to Chichester cross our fingers for good weather, we thought it was worth giving you a quick rundown of the FOS for 2012.

Lotus is this year's featured marque

As well as the usual mix of racing cars old and new, and no doubt some epic rally action on the woodland special stage, there will be plenty of new metal (and GRP, and carbon) to feast your eyes upon.

This year Lotus is also the featured marque, so expect of action on that front, as Colin Chapman's cars celebrate 60 years. Lotus will also celebrate 50 years of the iconic Elan, and will no doubt be looking to the future as well, despite its current troubles.

Alpine A110-50 will make its UK debut

Goodwood also has a particularly strong pull on the stars of the motorsport world, and this year's list of drivers (and riders) includes Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Alain Prost, Nico Rosberg, Mark Webber, Kenny Roberts and James Toseland.

PH will be joining in the fun up Lord March's drive, too, so keep a look-out and cheer us on. you can see us at 17.40 on Saturday (Astra VXR), 09.25 on Sunday (E-Type), 12.30 on Sunday (Juke R) and 18.10 on Sunday (XKR-S) and you might spot a subtle PH smiley or two, if we've managed to sneak them on to any of the cars...